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Gin is a spirit on the rise. Global alcohol consumption dropped last year, but gin’s popularity continues to soar. Vogue speaks of London’s fast-moving gin renaissance. Actor Ryan Reynolds bought Pacific Northwest–based craft brand Aviation Gin. According to data published by the International Wines and Spirits Record (IWSR), the juniper-infused distillate experienced an eight-percent sales growth in 2018 — …
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself." It's a wonderful line, but it's also from another time in American life. Today, We, the People, have plenty of reasons to be afraid. For one, domestic terrorism works. Not only do the shooters kill real people who are their imaginary enemies, but millions more viewing the carnage at home are also impacted by the violence. As a …
Diversity is a talking point. Unless your company is actively doing something about it—then, it's a universal problem that we're slowly overcoming. One means of combatting inequality in the ad business is to find talented women, people of color, and people over 40, and help to support their efforts, wherever they happen to be in their career journey. Ad agencies were once talent magnets and they can be again, …
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Agencies rise and agencies fall. Let's start with the bad news. Barton F. Graf, the small indie agency in NYC, like Wexley School for Girls in Seattle (and other "hot shops" before it), is closing down. Jeff Beer writes about advertising for Fast Company. When learning of the closing of Barton F. Graf, he pondered what, if anything, it might mean for the industry at large. The ad industry is prone to …
For the past 40 or more years, "Liberal" has been a bad word in Texas. Senator John Cornyn still lives in that throwback era, although time is now catching up to him and his kind. Let's look at the last gasps of a desperate GOP, and the tired arguments they continue to rely on. Since Cornyn isn't running against a name-brand Democrat, his team decided to place Wendy Davis, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and …
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Bob Dylan's song, "The Man in Me" is now the Rocket Mortgage by Quicken theme song. The song was released in 1970 on Dylan's album, New Morning. https://youtu.be/G6oBqDkNz38 "The Man in Me" is a beautiful love song, written and performed for an American icon. The song was also featured in 1998 Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski. It plays during the stylized opening title sequence and during the hallucination …
We keep hearing how the United States is a nation of laws. And how we're better than this. Those are talking points. Facts point in another direction. Facts say we are a lawless society where terror reigns. Facts say we are not better than this. Here is one fact: no other nation on Earth has anywhere near the gun violence that citizens of the United States must endure each and every day. And why is that? …
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What if you lived in a nation where the president incited racial violence on a daily basis? What if you lived in a nation where feeble-minded recipients of this twisted messaging were all too willing to spray the place with bullets from an automated weapon? What if...? The fact is the current president of the United States warned us how it would be: "You know what else they say about my people? The polls, they …
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